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Changing your country on Steam has been made harder to battle VPNs

By Liam Dawe, 31 Jul 2020

Something that has been happening for years now, is that people have been switching around their country on Steam and using VPNs to get cheaper prices - Valve looks to have put a stop to it.

The Humble Double Fine 20th Anniversary Bundle is live with lots of games

By Liam Dawe, 30 Jul 2020

The weekend is quickly approaching and you're in need of some games? Seems Humble Bundle have you covered today with the launch of the Humble Double Fine 20th Anniversary Bundle.

Free and open source 3D creation suite Blender gets funding from Microsoft

By Liam Dawe, 29 Jul 2020

It feels like FOSS is on a roll lately, with more and more great open source applications seeing funding from big names. Blender is back in the spotlight again, with backing from Microsoft.

Cult classic Beneath a Steel Sky is finally available free on Steam

By Liam Dawe, 29 Jul 2020

It's hard to believe that until now, Beneath a Steel Sky wasn't available on Steam. With the launch of the sequel Beyond a Steel Sky recently, Revolution Software decided to fix that.

Wilderness survival roguelike Wayward gets a big free expansion

By Liam Dawe, 29 Jul 2020

Currently in Early Access, Wayward is a wilderness survival roguelike from developer Unlok and the 9th major update is out now with the Seafarer expansion.

Event-driven open source game engine GDevelop adds a live preview feature

By Liam Dawe, 29 Jul 2020

GDevelop is an in-development free and open source game engine, one that is powered by a drag and drop event system and it continues bringing in new and fun features.

Take a walk and take some nice snaps in Shutter Stroll

By Liam Dawe, 29 Jul 2020

Shutter Stroll, a walking sim about taking nice photographs across hundreds of generated islands is a pretty sweet experience for when you want to properly relax.

Steam has a sale on to celebrate Swiss Games and Developers

By Liam Dawe, 29 Jul 2020

If it wasn't enough that there's multiple good Humble Bundles going on, and a big RPG sale on GOG - Valve have launched a sale to celebrate Swiss Games.

AMD confident in Zen 3 CPUs and RDNA 2 GPUs launching in 2020

By Liam Dawe, 29 Jul 2020

Another quarterly earnings report is out from AMD, along with the usual conference call and it seems all is going well over in camp AMD.

The Humble Raw Fury 2020 Bundle is out with some sweet gaming action

By Liam Dawe, 28 Jul 2020

Another game bundle has been released today with the Humble Raw Fury 2020 Bundle and there's some good looking Linux games included with it.

Valve gets another developer to work on Linux graphics drivers, starting with AMD RADV

By Liam Dawe, 28 Jul 2020

It appears that Valve aren't stopping their push to improve Linux gaming, as they just recently hired another developer to help improve open source graphics drivers.

5 new titles and 1 leaving Stadia Pro in August, Celeste out now + more Stadia news

By Liam Dawe, 28 Jul 2020

Here's your regular dose of Stadia news, as today Google revealed a bunch more games coming to their Linux-powered game streaming service.

The upcoming game 'qomp' turns you into the Pong ball as you try to escape

By Liam Dawe, 28 Jul 2020

That poor ball, stuck between Pong paddles that just bounce it around and they've done it since 1972. The ball has had enough of this and it's going to escape.

The free pixel-art Bronze Age RTS The Fertile Crescent continues evolving

By Liam Dawe, 28 Jul 2020

If you enjoy a good traditional real-time strategy game and you haven't already tried The Fertile Crescent, you're really missing out on a wonderful title that keeps getting better.

WWI FPS 'Tannenberg' adds a big new free map with a famous fortress - on a big sale

By Liam Dawe, 28 Jul 2020

M2H and Blackmill Games recently released Tannenberg, their WWI FPS on consoles but they haven't left the PC version behind with a fresh update out with a new map.

Saint Kotar will bring a psychological horror adventure as a Kickstarter success

By Liam Dawe, 28 Jul 2020

After the release of a free Prologue with Saint Kotar: The Yellow Mask and a Kickstarter campaign that is now completed, the full Saint Kotar experience is on the way.

The latest art of rally demo update adds in crowds, improved handling

By Liam Dawe, 28 Jul 2020

art of rally, an upcoming stylized rally experience from the creator of Absolute Drift still has a demo available and it was recently updated.

Thrive, the free and open source evolution sim has a fresh release with save support

By Liam Dawe, 28 Jul 2020

After moving over to Godot Engine as the base for Thrive, the team behind this free and open source game of evolution have a new and important update available.

A System76 engineer is porting coreboot to newer AMD Zen systems

By Liam Dawe, 28 Jul 2020

System76 have begun providing more AMD based hardware for Linux enthusiasts, and the next step in their plan to be as open as possible appears to have begun.